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The Nebraska Compromise and California Killer
Following Senator Nelson's infamous "Nebraska Compromise", which forces the other 49 states to pay for Nebraska's new Medicaid recipients, journalists, legislators, and citizens have lashed out for ...
04 Jan, 2010
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Is the 2nd American Revolution on its way?
One of the world's most accurate trends forecasters is predicting the rise of a viable 3rd party by 2012. Gerald Celente, of the Trends Research Institute is making some dire predictions for 201 ...
31 Dec, 2009
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Congress's Irritable Earmarks
In the quietly passed omnibus spending bill (say goodbye to billions and billions of your tax dollars!), more than a half million was dedicated to... research equipment for Los Angeles's very own Inst ...
15 Dec, 2009
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The war speech that may have set the stage for a 3rd party
Last night, President Obama's war speech was especially relevant for independent-minded voters, both in California and across the nation. For the second time in less than a year, our Nobel Peace Prize ...
02 Dec, 2009
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Tea Party Co-Founder Blasts Mainstream GOP Imitators
In 2007, the modern tea party movement took shape, in a vastly different form than it now presents itself. Spurred by an impending recession, a government overrun by deception and corruption, an ...
30 Nov, 2009
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Perata Cleared in Federal Corruption Probe
SACRAMENTO -- Finally bringing to a close a five-year-long investigation, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will not file corruption charges against former state Senate President Don P ...
27 May, 2009
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Has Obama turned his back on home care worker who helped get him elected?
ALAMEDA -- An East Bay woman who in 2007 allowed then Sen. Barack Obama to accompany her on her job caring for a homebound man during his presidential campaign has become one of thousands caught up in ...
25 May, 2009
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A Month Later, Stark Remains Hospitalized in D.C.
Hospitalized in a Washington, D.C.-area medical center since mid-April, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Pete Stark said late Wednesday that the congressman continues to recover from a bout of severe pneumon ...
15 May, 2009
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First Lady Speaking at UC Merced
What happens when you combine digital-native collegeseniors with a tech savvy White House and a dash of"si, se puede" determination?You wind up with first lady Michelle Obama deliveringthe commencemen ...
03 Apr, 2009
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California: A Business Kind of Town
Remember that part in "True Lies" where Harry Tasker, as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, tells his family he's leaving for a technology conference in Europe? Later in the movie, his wife is talking t ...
21 Mar, 2009
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